We were up at 7.30 as Julie had to go to work and as we had been sleeping in her room she needed to come in and get ready for work. We sorted out our belongings as we weren't taking all our things to Christchurch, N was booked on the plane with just hand baggage and I had booked to take a suitcase. Rob took us to the airport and although we had checked in online there was still quite a long wait at the luggage drop. I said goodbye to Rob and we went through security only to find that there were no cafes/restaurants there. We settled down to wait the half hour or so until our flight would be ready to board but soon heard that there would be a delay of at least half an hour due to the late take-off of the plane from Christchurch. We were flying with Jet Star, New Zealands equivalent of Ryanair, and I had booked the flight many months ago and got a very good price for our return flights. I took a suitcase and Nigel just took hand baggage as we didn't want to be encumbered with too much stuff on our trip. We landed in Christchurch just a half hour later than scheduled and caught the shuttle bus to our “home” for the next three days, the Riccarton Village Inn. The accommodation was good, a ground floor room with plenty of space and an adjoining bathroom. The staff were mainly Chinese and were efficient and very friendly. After sorting ourselves out we set off to walk to the town centre via Hagley Park which is, apparently, the third largest park in the world after Hyde Park and Central Park being 10kms in circumference. A fact of which we had been unaware! So after quite a walk we decided to retrace our steps and find somewhere to eat on the way back to the Inn. We decided on an Indian Restaurant the quaintly named Arjee Bhajee! It had a nice dining room as well as a take away. They were very busy and it took quite some time before our order was taken and even longer before we got our food but it was well worth the wait.
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